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Lene V. Hau is the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University and a faculty member of the Harvard Biophysics Program. She joined the faculty in 1999 after serving as a senior scientist at the Rowland Institute for Science. Hau holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Aarhus, Denmark. She is renowned for her groundbreaking work in slowing and stopping light, having achieved the feat of halting a pulse of light and then reviving it. Her research explores light-matter interactions and has implications in nanoscience and molecular synthetic biology, particularly in developing biofuel production methodologies. Throughout her career, she has contributed to a diverse range of fields, transitioning from theoretical condensed matter physics to experimental optical atomic physics. Hau's work encompasses ultra-cold atoms and superfluid Bose-Einstein condensates, as well as high-energy particle experiments at CERN and Brookhaven National Laboratory. Among her prestigious accolades are the MacArthur Fellowship, election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, numerous awards from American Physical Society, and recognition as a Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate.
Harvard University • Cambridge, MA
Professor in the Department of Physics focusing on light-matter interactions and nanoscience.
Administered by the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS).